Is the injury fake or real. I'm really doubtful.
BD tour is very critical for this two crickets (Sourov another one) as their career at stake. If any of these three fails then that will be his end of road. People will criticise that they can't handle even BD bowlers. But in reality they know very well that our bowlers are nothing less than world's top on our soil.

And how doesTendulkar spends the day after taking advise to take a break from training?
He goes out gets heavier Bat (1.3Kg). Apparently he used to use quite heavy Bat before he injured his shoulder hence was advised to use lighter Bat. Since he has under perform in WC 2007 he has to make some kind of excuse.

India's preparation for the coming Bangladesh tour suffered a blow, with Rahul Dravid getting hit on the face by a bouncer from R P Singh on the penultimate day of the conditioning camp in Kolkata on Saturday.

Dravid, who was having batting practice on a grassy wicket, tried to hook the delivery and the ball came off his bat and hit his face.

The Indian skipper, who was wearing a helmet, immediately collapsed and other members of the team rushed to him. Team physio John Gloster treated him for a couple of minutes before he left for the dressing room, bleeding profusely, with a towel wrapped on his face.

The extent of the injury is still not clear and so far there is no word from the team management.

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Geez.....the indians are so nervous, they're hitting their own players! Desperate situations calls for desperate measures i guess. But what would knocking out your captain possibly achieve i wonder....

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Its pretty sad, after such a minor injury, they speculate his reflexes are deteriorating... things like this can happen to even youngsters.. i feel bad for these players... the media makes them overnight king and would through them back to the streets right after a disappointing performance

Its pretty sad, after such a minor injury, they speculate his reflexes are deteriorating... things like this can happen to even youngsters.. i feel bad for these players... the media makes them overnight king and would through them back to the streets right after a disappointing performance

ya..pretty sad and lame.... this journalist sounds like pathetic loser as he was insisting to add his VALUABLE comments...

The reporter said, Dravid is the ONLY PERFECT BATSMAN IN THE WORLD. Now that is a bit too much. Anyway, I'll try to live with it. Let them come, and we'll see how that goes.

About Yuvraj Singh's comment, that was a bit childish. Like sure you say "Bangladesh has given us sleepless nights", but hello? You yourself played in that match, and lost it. And now you're saying "we're going there to prove a point". What point are you trying to prove? That the match you lost against Bangladesh was a fluke? Or was it that you sucked that day? Oh no, they'll prove that they are no better than an okay team. No no, they'll prove that they aren't taking Bangladesh lightly. Naah these are all overrated. They'll prove that their 11-men squad is the dream-team that anyone in the world can ask for.

You know what I say? Come and prove your point. Whatever point you try to prove, just learn how to live with a loss. The team you lost against also beat South Africa after you. So you're not talking about a mediocre team. Idiot.